WORK EXPERIENCE:

Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
Tokyo, Japan. 4/1998 - 11/99
Position: Electronic Media Business Development - Assistant Manager
Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) is Japan's equivalent of The Wall Street Journal and has a daily circulation of three million.
Nikkei Net Interactive, is the online English language news service from Nikkei, and went to a subscription based model in March 1999.
In summary, my duties encompassed the following:
Liasing with both the design and programming team in the planning and development of the site, setting up IP address authentication for clients who required access to NNI for a large number of their employees and managing the contracts of all group subscriptions.
I also designed and wrote copy for many sections on the site including technical support and site overview and used the feedback from subscribers e-mails and telephone calls to improve the site and implement marketing and development intiatives.

Reference available upon request

ICM. Tokyo, Japan. 1/97 - 3/98
Position: Conference Producer

The International Communications for Management Group has sixteen offices around the world. I researched and produced business conferences for the Tokyo market.
Topics included electronic commerce, telecommunications deregulation, Big Bang, and Y2K.
Responsibilities involved researching suitable topics, identifying key issues, and writing the conference agenda.

Reference available upon request

Ministry of Education, South Korea. 8/95 - 8/96

Held workshops for 55 Korean teachers of English.
Suggested methods to improve the standard of English teaching in elementary, middle, and high schools in South Korea.
Edited and proof read translations from Korean into English.